Quotes About Traditional

In our traditional culture, people have a very different view towards nature than in Western culture. We consider humans as part of nature. But in the West, they talk about protecting nature. That's a joke because nature doesn't care; it's humans who need to protect themselves.

I have always preferred paper and ink to a computer screen and I still write most of my lyrics by hand.

The best way to handle women is to keep them pregnant and barefoot.

Be it a movie premiere or an event, I personally prefer to wear a lot of saree. For me, they are very comfortable; I can carry them off.

I've made no pretence to be a modern man at all, ever.

I am not a big fan of going to malls. I am pretty old-fashioned that way.

I believe marriages should be legally defined as between one man and one woman.

French designers are classic, chic, and traditional.

But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?

At heart, I am a country girl who grew up in Devon.

I have very old-fashioned tastes.

I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways.

People just need to go back to the ancient crafts. We should teach people to do whittling at school, or knitting.

The traditional teaching of the church has proven to be the only failsafe way to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS.

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People who begin sentences with "I may be old-fashioned but—" are usually not only old-fashioned but wrong.

Charismatic authority, which Max Weber contrasts with "traditional" and "rational-legal" types of authority, is described by him as repudiating the past and representing a "specifically revolutionary force.

That had the irritating sound of an old saying.

A man is an oak, a woman a willow," the saying ran. The oak fought the wind and was broken, while the willow bent when it must and survived.

To Serve and Protect...- Traditional Motto of Protection Rackets

My adversaries were those with a traditional mind-set, the usual opponents of any idea "not invented here," those fearful that what I was trying to do threatened their existing programs and procurements.

Traditional schools are for those who want to be successful in the E and S quadrants. Another type of education is for those who want to be successful in the B and I quadrants.

If only I had some grease I could fix some kind of a light, Ma considered. We didn't lack for light when I was a girl before this newfangled kerosene was ever heard of. That's so, said Pa. These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraph and kerosene and coal stoves--they're good things to have, but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em.

It seemed as if humans had lost the ability to make their own fun. The more they were gifted with inventions, the less they needed one another. They didn't sing or play the fiddle at the hearth; they turned on the stereo. They didn't tell stories on the porch; they watched television.